What Was That

The first of this four game deal with the Diamondbacks started out nice and zesty.  They hung three runs in the first and another in the second.  Jumping out early like that made it look like it was going to be non-stop spanky spank but then the bats just went cold.  There was a run in the 5th and a run on the 6th but in the end there is nothing to complain about because they won 6-3.  

Good deal.

The next game was a fiasco.  It started out nice.  Tony Gonsolin looked like a pro and Mookie Betts finally put one in the seats.  Mookie gunned Ketel Marte down at third with a throw that made Yasiel Puig look like Johnny Damon.  It was nice to see him start doing the things that made Freidman give him all that money.

On to the fiasco.  Why on earth would Dave Roberts walk a guy hitting .133 to load the bases for a guy hitting .308?  Walking a lefty to get the right handed matchup is normal baseball but the Dodgers would have had better luck if they just asked Blake Treinen to pitch to Eduardo Escobar lefthanded.

Cody Bellinger still looks awful.  He is hitting .139.  He has only struckout 6 times but he is missing on good pitches.  He came up with the tying run in scoring position and popped up on one pitch to end the game.  It's probably time to move Cody Bellinger back in the lineup.  Have him switch spots with Corey Seager.  That guy is going to get a bill for breaking empty seats with how hard he is hitting the ball.  I think if he hit one off of your cardboard cutouts you would feel while you were sitting on the couch.

Speaking of cardboard cutouts, AJ Pollock looked at a couple of strikes and then swung and missed.  The next time he looked at a strike and fouled a couple off and looked at strike three.  He hit .467 over the previous five games so it was tough to watch him go backward.

Anyway

Tough loss

We'll have to settle for 57-3